School of Psychology, University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand.
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, USA.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Sep 29;8:747. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00747. eCollection 2014.
Cognitive control of physical activity and sedentary behavior is receiving increased attention in the neuroscientific and behavioral medicine literature as a means of better understanding and improving the self-regulation of physical activity. Enhancing individuals' cognitive control capacities may provide a means to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior. First, this paper reviews emerging evidence of the antecedence of cognitive control abilities in successful self-regulation of physical activity, and in precipitating self-regulation failure that predisposes to sedentary behavior. We then highlight the brain networks that may underpin the cognitive control and self-regulation of physical activity, including the default mode network, prefrontal cortical networks and brain regions and pathways associated with reward. We then discuss research on cognitive training interventions that document improved cognitive control and that suggest promise of influencing physical activity regulation. Key cognitive training components likely to be the most effective at improving self-regulation are also highlighted. The review concludes with suggestions for future research.
身体活动和久坐行为的认知控制在神经科学和行为医学文献中受到越来越多的关注，作为更好地理解和改善身体活动自我调节的一种手段。增强个体的认知控制能力可能是增加身体活动和减少久坐行为的一种方法。首先，本文回顾了认知控制能力在成功自我调节身体活动和引发易导致久坐行为的自我调节失败中的先行证据。然后，我们强调了可能支持身体活动的认知控制和自我调节的大脑网络，包括默认模式网络、前额叶皮质网络以及与奖励相关的大脑区域和通路。然后，我们讨论了认知训练干预的研究，这些研究记录了认知控制的改善，并表明有可能影响身体活动的调节。还强调了可能最有效地改善自我调节的关键认知训练组成部分。该综述最后提出了未来研究的建议。
